The Vatican guards like to say that many visitors ask them where the frescoes of Raphael are when they have just passed without stopping. The same rather annoying adventure had happened to the painter Reynolds: "I remember very well," he wrote, " of my own disappointment when I visited the Vatican for the first time. One of the most humiliating things that ever happened to me was not to taste these frescoes as I knew I should have. I felt my ignorance and was taken aback. ”
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You really have to look at Raphael's works to see them. Not that his manner lacks clarity, but his frescoes are so famous that one no longer takes the trouble to linger there. Multiplied by painted, drawn or sculpted copies, they become boring. "The work knocks me out," said Malraux, who nevertheless felt obliged to add : but behind, there is this singular vision of the reconciled man ... "
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